ROTATORY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ROTATORY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROTATORY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROTATORY is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROTATORY
No single letter turns ROTATORY into another word.
How ROTATORY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ROTATORY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ROTATORY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ROTATORY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Moving or acting in a circle around a fixed point or axis.
Rotatory is the formal, slightly technical relative of the plainer "rotating" and "rotary". Medicine and physics lean on it for motions and for effects that turn something through an angle.
How ROTATORY is used
Rotatory is typical of anatomy, mechanics and optics, as in rotatory motion of a joint.
- The shoulder allows a wide rotatory movement.
- A rotatory current swirled around the island.
- The crystal has a rotatory effect on polarised light.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROTATORY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ROTATORY
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Common questions about ROTATORY
- Is ROTATORY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROTATORY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROTATORY worth?
- ROTATORY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROTATORY mean?
- Moving or acting in a circle around a fixed point or axis.
- What letters can be added to ROTATORY?
- No single letter can be added to ROTATORY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ROTATORY:
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